The Song of Three Friends: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Song of Three Friends by John Neihardt: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 8 original MP3 tracks, 2:32:54 running time and a link to listen.
The Song of Three Friends, credited to John Neihardt, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Song of Three Friends by John Neihardt. Read in English by Phil Schempf The Song of Three Friends is one of five epic poems in Neihardt's, "Cycle of the West". In eight cantos it tells the tale of three friends, Mike Fink, Will Carpenter and Frank Talbeau, who travel up the Missouri River in 1822 as members of Ashley's Hundred to seek their fortunes in the fur fields of the Rocky Mountains. The friends fall out over the love of a woman with fatal consequences. The Song of Three Friends won “Best Volume of Verse” from the Poetry Society of America shortly after it was published.. - Summary by Fritz
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Song of Three Friends
- Author credits: John Neihardt
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 8
- Listed recording duration: 2:32:54
Catalogue topics
- mountain men
- ashley's hundred
- mike fink
Track guide
- 01 - Ashley's Hundred — 4:03
- 02 - The Up-stream Men — 30:58
- 03 - To The Musselshell — 11:45
- 04 - The Net Is Cast — 13:11
- 05 - The Quarrel — 23:03
- 06 - The Shooting of the Cup — 22:15
- 07 - The Third Rider — 24:03
- 08 - Vengeance — 23:36
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